Li Xiaojie took one last hard look at his parents' corpses and gritted his teeth.
The dead are gone, the living should try their best to live on!
At this time, he noticed that Cheng An and the two had already reached the side door of the kitchen. They were walking very fast and were about to disappear into the dark night. They had no intention of waiting at all.
"Wait, wait for me!"
Li Xiaojie quickly got up and left his home as fast as he could.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of him chasing after him. Cheng An paused for a moment and said, "You said your extraordinary ability is to see through the nature of monsters?"
"Yep!"
"What's the reason for the terror tonight? Why can't you look out the window?" Cheng An said.
"That archway and those shrines on the ground!"
Li Xiaojie panted, lowered his head, and stared at the ground and said: "Don't look at those shrines! They will pollute your soul and occupy your brain. If you look at them, you will become like those, and
...just like my parents!
"Also, that archway is over there. It is a famous celestial demon species in the Eastern Continent. It is a regular demon species. Outside the door is the world of the living, and inside the door is the world of the dead. Yin people use it, and yang people use it.
Avoid! Never invade from both sides, otherwise you will die for violating the rules!"
Rules type monster?
Cheng An heard what seemed to be clusters of mosquitoes or other bugs lingering in his ears. He waved them away and said, "Speak simply."
Li Xiaojie thought for a moment and said, "You just can't cross the archway door!"
"I understand, come with me."
Cheng An nodded and walked north along the path, with Cheng Yuyi following behind him.
The archway at the entrance of the village is on the south side.
Li Xiaojie did not hesitate this time and immediately followed him. At this point, he could only hope that this bizarre "Martial Arts Master" who could deal with second-level demon species could lead him out of here alive.
"It seems that my guess was correct. There was indeed something wrong with the archway and those shrines.
"They seem to be in some kind of sleeping state. It's just a matter of their own characteristics that affects the people in this village. They don't take the initiative to attack?
"This can also explain why the only people who attacked me were my mutated parents and neighbors, not the archway and the shrine itself!"
Cheng An thought silently in his heart, stopped at the corner of a wall, and observed for a moment.
Ahead is a path beside the pond with sparkling water. There is an incense burner placed at the iron gate of the house on the other side of the pond, burning incense. The shrine is facing this direction, and there seems to be an invisible gaze, which is quite regular there.
Scan back and forth.
"What are the names of these two things?" Cheng An asked.
Li Xiaojie was so cold that his teeth chattered slightly, and he slowly explained: "The archway is called Yangguandao."
You take your Yangguan Road? I cross my single-plank bridge?
This characteristic fits its name quite well... If you just don't touch it, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?
Cheng An touched his chin and asked again: "Where are those shrines?"
"Brother Cheng An, that is an evil god! You can't say its name directly, otherwise, she might notice it at such a close distance!"
Li Xiaojie's face was a little pale. He used a black marker, flattened his palms, and wrote four neat words: Fallen to the Buddha!
Evil God?
Cheng An turned his head slightly, his eyes focused.
Over there, Zhengshen is not only a title, but also a symbol of strength!
However, the term evil god has a certain discriminatory meaning, and it broadly includes any non-human creature that does inhumane evil things and is believed by a certain group.
And the strength of each evil god is vastly different.
For example, Messier of the Church of Light is an evil god, and she is close to the existence of the true God;
And a water charm that enjoys the offerings of boys and girls by ignorant farmers may only be of the second level, or even the first level, but it can still be called an evil god!
There is a lot of moisture in here.
If an evil god like the former was raging here, Cheng An felt that she and others would not have to make a fearless struggle, and suggested that she pay homage on the spot and become her devout believers!
"Can you see through their origins and abilities, and then how can you tell their strength levels?" Cheng An asked.
This is very important. The enemy's level determines how he will deal with abnormalities later.
Li Xiaojie nodded, then shook his head and said: "I am now in the first realm of extraordinary beings. I can see through the levels of demon species below level four, but I can't see through these two."
"That means they are at least level five?"
Cheng An's heart trembled.
This completely put an end to his idea of giving it a try if he didn't agree on something.
Demons of level 5 and above will die if you try!
He stared at the shrine on the other side of the pond, and relied on his intuition to sense that the other party had moved his 'eyes' to another direction.
"Behind that wall within five seconds, follow me!"
As he spoke, Cheng An shortened his figure and jumped towards the opposite side.
Cheng Yuyi and Li Xiaojie quickly followed.
Almost at the last moment when their heels hid in the wall, they obviously felt strange that they were almost being watched and almost captured.
After no further changes occurred in his direction, Li Xiaojie breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, with the help of Cheng An's keen intuition, the three of them headed north, avoiding the "scans" of shrines placed at tricky angles one after another.
It's near the intersection on the north side of the village.
At this time, Cheng Yuyi suddenly pulled Cheng An's sleeve and whispered: "Brother! That's Qingcun No. 127. The classmate who reminded me is there! Can we save him?"
Cheng An stopped, squatted in the corner, frowned and said, "Try sending him a message."
Cheng Yuyi's eyes lit up and he said: "Okay!"
She quickly took out her mobile phone. There was no signal, but it was not far away. She quickly sent a message to her classmate and asked him: "Ma Jun, are you at home?"
After waiting for a long time, the other party did not reply.
Cheng Yuyi said with an ugly face: "Brother, maybe something happened to him."
"Ji people have their own destiny."
Cheng An reluctantly comforted his sister without saying anything more.
He was still vigilant, the buzzing of insects in his ears was getting louder and louder, and he suspected that he was getting closer to some unknown existence.
"After passing the No. 135 house in front, there is the road to the north of the village. We can probably go out."
Cheng An pressed his hand and whispered: "Be careful. Although the shrine is on the other side of this house, you can't take it lightly. Don't look around. Do you understand?"
"Okay bro!"
"knew!"
Cheng Yuyi and Li Xiaojie were also very nervous.
The latter hesitated and asked: "Brother Cheng An, there may be other living people in this village, should we leave like this?"
"Then you are going to save me?"
"..." Li Xiaojie was stunned.
Cheng An said: "Call the police as soon as you get out and let the authorities handle it. It's hard for us to protect ourselves, so don't think so much."
As he spoke, he waved and walked toward the rear along the wall of the house of No. 135, hunched over.
Cheng Yuyi followed closely without hesitation.
Li Xiaojie looked back. In the end, his desire to survive defeated his unrealistic heroic dream, and he kept up the pace without missing a beat.
The moonlight was bright, and the twenty-meter-long wall could be walked over in ten seconds at best, but it gave people the illusion of an extremely long time.
During this period, a shrill roar came from time to time in the night sky, whether it was a human or a ghost.
Finally, the three of them reached the end of the wall without any danger, and one step further they found the path to the north of the village.
Looking to the side, the road ahead is smooth, the street lights are bright, and there are no weird shrines under the street lights.
Li Xiaojie felt relieved: "Let's come out... uh uh!"
Before he could finish speaking, Cheng An suddenly reached out and covered his mouth.
"Don't make a sound." Cheng An spoke with his eyes.
In Li Xiaojie's frightened eyes, Cheng An used very slow movements to pull him slightly forward.
"Hiss!" Li Xiaojie's eyes suddenly widened.
At the end of the road ahead, at the turning point, there is an archway.
Its hanging banner trembled slightly in the night wind, as if there was a trembling fetus hidden under its belly.
It is exactly the same as the one at the entrance of the village. On the plaque in the middle, the words "Yangguandao" are clearly visible.
"Brother! What should I do?"
Cheng Yuyi was so frightened that her face turned pale.
"Go to the west and see!"
Ten minutes later, I hid all the way from XZ to the east and approached the west entrance of the village.
There is a crossroad over there that leads to the outside world.
Then, as soon as he got closer, Cheng An noticed that the buzzing in his ears was getting louder and louder.
He looked thoughtfully at the intersection, and found that the archway had indeed appeared at the intersection, and he could see any blind spot leading out of the village.
"Brother, there is one here too..." Cheng Yuyi began to tremble.
"Let's go east!"
Cheng An doesn't believe in evil, and he doesn't know what to do, but he can't panic.
Finally, at the east intersection, there is also this archway.
Besieged on all sides, there is no way out anywhere.
The plaque with the three words "Yangguandao" is like an invisible giant mouth in the darkness, mocking the futile struggle of mankind!
"elder brother……"
"It's okay! Hide behind me!"
Cheng An said with a gloomy face.
Cheng Yuyi backed away obediently, but from her brother's ugly expression, she could guess that it was probably not 'all right' at all!
Li Xiaojie was heartbroken and said dejectedly: "I see... Haha, no wonder no one can get out of Yangguan Road by mistake. This is an inexplicable weirdness!"
For a moment, he cried and laughed and said: "No matter where we go, it knows that the entire underworld is under its control. Unless we can walk out from under the archway openly, everything will be in vain."
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Cheng An glanced at this demoralized guy and suddenly asked: "Can I walk out from under the archway?"
Li Xiaojie looked at him blankly: "Yes, it is recorded in the books, but even the existence of the fifth realm cannot break out... Unless, brother, you are an extraordinary person above the fifth realm! Brother, you
Yeah?"
If I were in the fifth realm, I would be the first to crush you, this unambitious thing...
Cheng An looked around expressionlessly, and then asked: "That Fallen Desire Buddha and this Yang Guan Dao are two demon species, right?"
"Yes, we met two extremely powerful Five Immortals once, and we are really dead this time!" Li Xiaojie said with a sad face.
"Is it also the fifth realm?" Cheng An suddenly asked.
"Ah?" Li Xiaojie was confused.
"Fallen desire for Buddha."
"Well, I don't know, but it's at least the fifth level, because I can't tell the level of those shrines either."
Li Xiaojie shook his head and was halfway through his explanation when he suddenly saw Cheng An walking towards the door of a house. He was stunned at first, and then asked in horror: "What do you want to do?"
Cheng An grinned and said, "I'm dead anyway, so there's a way. I want to try it."